Introduction of e-mental health in national health systems- A health professionals’ perspective

Osma López, Jorge Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Sprenger, Michaela ; Mettler, Tobias

Resumen: Objectives: Evidence exists that e-mental health applications for maternal depression could assist in diagnosing such conditions in an early stage. This study explores the intention of health professionals to use and recommend e-mental health applications and how they think these applications should be integrated in the national health system.
Methods: We applied an exploratory sequential mixed-method research design. First, we collect and analyze responses from 131 health professionals in the field of pregnancy and maternal care. Based on these findings, we conduct semi-structured interviews with 16 experts to expand on the initial results.
Results: Our study reveals that health professionals would in general intend to recommend and use e-mental health applications. However, their attitude towards e-mental health applications varies with respect to the coverage of the mental health process.
Conclusion: The results are of relevance for research and practice. Two scenarios are described that show how health professionals perceive an introduction of e-mental health to be useful.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2017.07.001

Año: 2017

Publicado en: Health Policy and Technology 6, 4 (2017), 436-445
ISSN: 2211-8837

Factor impacto JCR: 1.013 (2017)

Categ. JCR: HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES rank: 65 / 79 = 0.823 (2017) - Q4 - T3

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.322 - Health Policy (Q3) - Biomedical Engineering (Q3)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-CAI/CH-21-16

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Person.Eval.Trat.Psicoló. (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)